Sisters
by RKT

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Fantastic colors and light! These two flowers and both dainty and beautiful. Love the details and the soft pinks. Great bokeh for the flowers really pop off the natural green environment.

beautiful moments
by tanguera

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Congrats Johanna on the ribbon! Loved this piece for all the lively actions and story going on. Thanks for the back story - methinks you will need to arm yourself with some bawdy Renaissance drinking songs next time in case the Pirate Arr! method doesn't work:-)

Savoring the moment
by wildiris

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Fantastic and beautiful colors! Love how there are two 'savoring the moments' of beauty here. The first is the beauty of the sunset on the lake. The second is the two people - the couple who are enjoying the company of each other by holding hands and watching nature's spectacle.

B L U E T I F U L
by KMcC

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Gorgeous soft and delicate blues! Love the details seen in this floral shot. And the title is very fitting:-) It is indeed - bluetiful!

Ibis in Flight
by hahn23

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Excellent capture of these birds taking flight! Love the blue green hues off of the wings - shame you couldn't capture a much closer view, but you did get the whole crew! Maybe I read too much into the imagery, but I see the fence in the backdrop as a pertinent part of the scene symbolically. Just as the are escaping the bounds of the earth as they take flight, so to, do they rise above the fences that man erects(as they are doing here). Nature wild and free.

when the west wind moves
by ubique

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Wow what a way to show off the beauty of nature!!! Must have been an amazing sight to see and watch these impala's (I think) out in the bush. Great capture, I think you could crop it even closer to get your audience even closer to the natural beauty of these animals. Nicely captured!

Stargazer
by franktheyank

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One of my favorite flowers. Love all the fabulous detail and color that explodes from this composition. Lighting fully complements this beautiful bloom. Nicely done macro work!

Collioure
by MargaretNet

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There is such charm and time adorned beauty in streets of small ancient/old towns. There is history in those worn steps - walking in the footsteps of the past one can imagine the laughter, hopes and tears that once passed by these walls. Love the processing for it looks like an old master's oil painting.

First Wildflowers of Spring
by grahamgator

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Wow! I love the way the yellow flowers just pop off of the dreamy shades of blue and green of the meadows in the backdrop. The colors make for a magical mood. Well done.

Who is the beauty, who is the beast?
by lei_73

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Fantastic B&W tones and compositional crop bring me right to your main subject - the smiling girl with her cuddled cat. Very lovely girl and candid moment caught here. Lighting and details are spot on - a little blurred for the cat - maybe cat moved while shot was taken which a higher ISO will take care of and/or a higher aperature 7.1 or higher to get a greater DOF (although you may not get that nice bokeh background so it might just be a toss-up to what is best). None-the-less maybe a little blur is not so bad - life happens and movement gives this a feeling of being there at that moment to see and observe the beauty of the moment a girl cradling her beloved pet.